Fear and Valour (Long)

[amanitamuscaria1]

No: HPFGUIDX 104380

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pandrea100" <pandrea100 at h...> 
wrote:
> Valky wrote a long theory suggesting Voldemort's power is based on 
> the general fear of saying his name:
> 
> > So to this point I have addressed an argument that Voldemort is 
> > using a "complex spell model" combining at least two forms of 
> > powerful magic upon the masses to concrete his dominion of the 
> > wizard world. 
> > Further I believe that he has marked his servants as servants of 
> > this spell. So, whether they want to or not, they WILL fulfill 
his 
> > *first priority* of maintaining to the absolute extent of their 
> > reaches the fear of his name. Because it is incedently ,or 
actually 
> > specifically, the one thing that makes him so damn undefeatable. 
> 
> This is an interesting theory, but how would Voldemort have 
> created this "spellform" giving him power through the fear of his 
> name?  Presumably people came to be afraid of him because of his 
> awful actions, how did he get power to do these before he was so 
> widely feared?
> 
> Pandrea

AmanitaMuscaria now - Pandrea: Voldy would have created his spellform 
as all tyrants create their own myth - slowly and with care. The same 
way he became The Dark Lord. He may have styled himself Lord 
Voldemort to a few select schoolchums whilst he was still in 
Hogwarts, but he became the Dark Lord and Lord Voldemort truly once 
he'd gone through the 'many transformations'. It's a gradual process.
Valky - A truly excellent and thought-provoking post. The only 
problem is, you have the outcome being as either good or evil must 
win - surely the only outcome is a balance or rebalance of good and 
evil? So in effect 'neither can win whilst the other survives', but 
that's what life is.
Cheers. AmanitaMuscaria